Even If It Hurts (Coastal Elite #1)

by Sam Mariano

“All of that hinges on her surviving this weekend. I can’t fuck her if she’s dead. I’m not into that.” “As far as you know,” Anae jokes. “I watched a movie last weekend that made it seem surprisingly hot. You should watch it with me.”

I read the message first. “Hope this doesn’t happen to your mom.” I frown, then I click the link. My frown deepens as I read the headline and first few lines of the article to realize it’s a news story about a morgue employee who was discovered having sex with one of the corpses in his care. Nausea grips me, but I ignore it and the warning not to and click the video. It shows a man in a white uniform running his hand up the motionless leg of a woman on a metal table, then touching her bare belly. It cuts to a new scene and the sounds of metallic creaking blare out of my phone. Startled and sickened at the same time, I silence my phone, but I can’t look away from the horrifying video of a morgue-worker raping a corpse with my mother’s face photoshopped onto it.

“You should suffocate the bitch while you fuck her,” Anae says. “I’m getting a little worried about your dedication to seeing me commit necrophilia,” he states. “I’m not into it. Move on.” “If she’s the dead girl, I think you could handle it. I wish you could fuck her to death, but I don’t know how that even works.”

“When I get back, we’ll drag her back to the bed. I’m not into this necrophilia bullshit of yours, but you have been pretty accommodating of all mine.” He looks over at her. “How about a compromise?” “What did you have in mind?” she asks. “She needs to be alive when I start fucking her or it’s a nonstarter. But maybe when my cock is jammed inside her pussy and I’m close to finishing… I let you strangle her. If she’s dead before I’m done, I’m still gonna finish inside her, so you’ll get your wish.” “Ooh, I like that,” she says, her eyes lit with excitement. “Will you fuck me after?” Dare smirks. “On the same bed, next to her body.” Anae sighs, gazing at him with such adoration, it makes me literally sick. “You really are the best boyfriend ever.”